Lockdowns Kept Children From Acquiring Immunity to Contagious Respiratory Virus: Ontario Pediatrician

, --November 14, 2022

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With respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) surging coast to coast, children’s hospitals have been reporting long wait times and overwhelmed emergency rooms due to unprecedented cases of the highly contagious illness, which causes cold-like symptoms in older children but can be very serious in infants. Children usually accumulate immunity over time to RSV, according to Dr. Melissa Langevin, associate medical director of emergency medicine at Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO). However, at a CHEO medical briefing on Oct. 26, Langevin said that the last three years of COVID-19 and lockdowns meant “kids not interacting in the same way.”-- More...

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